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Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
Verlag: Sceptre (16. Oktober 2008)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0340953551
ISBN-13: 978-0340953556
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 1,6 cm

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'Every page holds a twist, while the prose is rich, but perfect in its control, and its calibration between the poetic and the exotic ... readers might feel that they have reached the book equivalent of the Promised Land.' -- The Times 'It's been a while since I had such fun reading a book ... It's like dipping into a leather-bound chronicle full of exciting legends and reminded me of the fathomless pleasure with which I used to read as a child. I was rapt.' -- Daily Telegraph 'From the opening sentence of this rip-roaring, swashbuckling yarn, you know you're in the hands of a master ... That level of brio, invention and panache continues at breakneck pace throughout ... smart, clever and stylish' -- Scotland on Sunday 'A rip-roaring ride of a novel' -- Independent on Sunday 'Intricate and exuberant ... It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language.' -- New York Times Book Review 'a celebration of male friendship' -- Sunday Telegraph 20081109 'great fun' -- Sunday Times 20081109

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GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars. Hired as escorts for a fugitive prince, they quickly find themselves half-willing generals in a mad rebellion, struggling to restore the prince's family to the throne. As their increasingly outrageous exploits unfold, they encounter a wondrous elephant, wily Rhadanite tradesmen, whores, thieves, soldiers, an emperor, and discover the truth about their young royal charge. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this is a novel brimming with raucous humour and cliff-hanging suspense, combining the spirit of The Arabian Nights with the action of The Three Musketeers.

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Language should enhance a story, not distract from it. Michael Chabon has such a fine command of English that he could write a love story that only five people in the world could understand was a love story. But what purpose would that serve? It would merely indicate pride at work.

To me, an adventure story needs to focus on the action and move rapidly. I want to find myself hanging over a cliff without first realizing that I'm barreling towards it. Otherwise, I don't feel like I'm in the adventure . . . but merely reading words about someone's idea of an adventure.

As a result, I wasn't pleased with the results of Michael Chabon's imaginative series of 15 short stories. I was spending more time studying the language than I was thinking about the story. It's like having a cake that's almost all icing. Why? For some reason, he chooses to use extremely long sentences ("With his skin that was lustrous as the tarnish on a copper kettle, and his eyes womanly as a camel's, and his shining pate with its ruff of wool whose silver hue implied a seniority attained only by the most hardened men, and above all with the air of stillness that trumpeted his murderous nature to all but the greenest travelers on this minor spur of the Silk Road, the African appeared neither to invite nor to promise to tolerate questions.") and many infrequently used words (the first chapter includes "shatranj," "bambakion," "buskins," "ostler," "bodkin," "runes," "Mehr," "Varangian," "caravansary," "japery," "Parthian," and "mendacious." Now I knew all but one of those words and could figure the other one out from context, but I doubt if most people would agree that those words added to the meaning of the story.

Building a tale from 15 short stories also makes the book choppy. I would have preferred a novella or a novel. Few have written this way since the time of Dickens when books were sold by installment. There's a reason for that: It doesn't work as well.

But the historical references were interesting, ones that I'm glad I learned from reading the book.

It's a short book and well illustrated. Without the illustrations, I would have liked the book a lot less well. The illustrations, however, pointed out some of the weaknesses of the writing: You need the illustrations to complete the story telling for the words are inadequate by themselves.

Beyond that, was I glad I read the book? Not very much. The overall story is one that didn't capture my interest very much. After Chapter One, the book was all downhill for me.

This work feels like a writing exercise rather than a serious literary work designed to please a large audience.

If you like fine writing and don't care much about how well the story works, by all means read this book.

But if you are looking for the best and most accessible of what Michael Chabon can deliver, skip Gentlemen of the Road.

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